Optimised asset management for any industry
No matter your industry, efficiently managing assets is essential for maintaining productivity, reducing costs, and ensuring compliance. Hardcat’s enterprise asset management solutions provide a seamless way to track, maintain, and secure critical assets. Giving you complete visibility and control.
Hardcat’s scalable platform streamlines operations by combining asset tracking, maintenance management, and compliance reporting. Suitable for any industry, it reduces risks, boosts efficiency, and maximises asset use.
Hardcat’s technology is built to adapt to your unique operational needs, eliminating inefficiencies and ensuring assets are always where they need to be—when they’re needed most. From tracking tools and equipment to managing high-value assets, our system provides real-time data that drives smarter decision-making.
Hardcat has a long history (more than 36 years) of providing asset certainty around the world and across a wide range of industries. Our highly flexible, asset-agnostic software provides the technology that supports our customers to address the aspects of asset management that are crucial for their business.
General asset management benefits
Hardcat offers tailored asset management solutions across various industries, enhancing operational efficiency, compliance, and asset longevity. Implementing Hardcat’s solutions across these industries leads to increased efficiency, compliance, and asset performance, ultimately delivering substantial long-term value. Here are the key benefits:
Optimised Resource Utilisation
By tracking and monitoring assets, organisations can identify bottlenecks, reduce downtime, streamline processes, and enhance operational efficiency.
Regulatory Compliance
Accurate asset information supports adherence to statutory regulations, facilitating audits and inspections to avoid penalties.
Enhanced Safety
Ensures equipment meets industry standards, reducing legal risks and promoting a culture of safety.
Improved Workplace Safety
Ensuring machinery and equipment operate correctly minimises the risk of accidents and malfunctions.
Asset Reliability
Proactive maintenance schedules enhance equipment reliability, reducing downtime and operational disruptions.
Consumable Monitoring
Enables efficient tracking of consumable stock and spare parts, ensuring availability when needed.
Comprehensive Asset Visibility
Provides a single source of truth for all assets, improving utilisation, maintenance, and lifecycle management.
Scalability and Integration
Modular solutions that integrate seamlessly with existing ERP and finance systems, accommodating organisational growth and evolving needs.
Enhanced Decision-Making
Delivers actionable intelligence through advanced analytics, supporting informed strategic planning.
Enhanced Accountability
Implementing an asset management system discourages misuse and loss of assets, fostering a culture of responsibility.
Streamlined Maintenance
Scheduled maintenance and timely repairs of assets ensure minimal disruption to activities and prolong asset lifespan.
Improved Tool and Equipment Tracking
Hardcat’s solutions enable companies to monitor the movement and usage of tools and equipment, reducing losses and enhancing productivity.
Hardcat software solutions
HARDCAT VX – Small-Medium Asset Management Solution
Developed and refined over more than 30 years based on customer requirements, Hardcat VX is a proven, feature-rich solution designed for targeted use within specific sections or departments of an organisation. Ideal for smaller teams, it supports between 1 to 20 concurrent users, providing a reliable and efficient asset management tool.
As a client/server solution at its core, Hardcat VX also includes a web module and mobile app that enables data access without administrative functions, ensuring seamless usability for end-users.
Flexible in deployment, Hardcat VX can be hosted on in-house fixed or virtualised infrastructure, as well as on outsourced cloud-based environments. Whether deployed on-premises or as a fully managed cloud solution, it delivers robust asset tracking capabilities tailored to the needs of smaller operational teams.
HARDCAT LEBOSI EAM – Enterprise Asset Management Solution
The Hardcat Lebosi® solution is designed for organisations with vast and distributed locations, such as global enterprises, police, fire and emergency services, manufacturing, and defence. It provides a consolidated view of assets across multiple sites while enabling seamless asset movement and transfers, ensuring strict adherence to chain-of-custody requirements.
With its web-based architecture, Hardcat Lebosi supports up to 50,000 concurrent users, offering a scalable and accessible solution for organisations that require real-time asset tracking and management. The mobile app enables data access without administrative functions, ensuring seamless usability for end-users.
Seamlessly integrating with any ERP system through robust integration tools, Hardcat Lebosi simplifies asset management by presenting users with only the information relevant to their role. This intuitive design enhances user experience and operational efficiency. By following asset management best practices, the solution empowers maintenance teams with greater oversight, improving decision-making and optimising asset utilisation across complex environments.
- Centralise asset information
- Resolve issues before they happen
- Maximise asset utilisation
- Manage aging assets and infrastructure
- Elevate maintenance management
- Consolidate operational applications
Key features of Hardcat solutions
Field Workforce Teams
Best available Mobile App technology for teams in the field. With disconnected state for off-line capabilities where wireless (mobile or Wi-Fi) connection is not available.
Intuitive Navigation
Find what you are looking for quickly with easy-to-use dashboards and hyper links to reduce navigation clicks to complete a single operation.
Integration Capabilities
Seamless integration with existing systems helps create a unified asset management ecosystem, facilitating more informed decision-making and better resource allocation.
Compliance and Regulatory Support
Designed to support compliance and regulatory needs, helping organisations meet industry standards and requirements.
Work Orders
Plan, schedule, execute and document work performed. Generate work orders for a set date as a reminder of planned projects. Filter the job orders by maintenance areas and know who is following up on an order already created.
Asset Lifecycle
Digital technology for asset life cycle management, focused on optimising the overall lifetime performance of asset are twice as likely to report performance improvements in reliability and productivity.
Planned & Reactive Maintenance
Schedule preventive maintenance activities for equipment to help prevent unexpected breakdowns as well as ensure compliance with regulators. Provides monitoring, maintenance and reliability data in a single platform. Ability to interface with many services and systems.
User-Friendliness
Quick adoption by employees, leading to higher data accuracy, faster asset processing times, and reduced chances of errors in asset management activities.
Improving Productivity
Supports asset-intensive industries to manage large quantities of asset data. Maintenance history reports predict equipment failure minimising unplanned downtime.
Configurable Analytics and Reporting
Tools for scheduling, mobility, calibration, and environmental and health monitoring. Easy to be customised and strong for reporting. Saving time on generating reports of activities with the freedom to create any customisable query.
Keep Data Up-To-Date
Use dashboard tools and reports to alert you to data issues as they arise, making it easier to keep asset data up-to-date and accurate.
Effective Inventory Management
Control and manage spare parts and inventory. Visibility into inventory levels, stock movements, and reorder points. Helping organisations optimise inventory levels, reduce stock-outs, and streamline processes.
Customisable Configuration
Adapt to existing processes and easily integrate it into operations, streamlining asset management tasks and increasing overall efficiency.
What are some major challenges in an EAM migration?
Data Migration and System Integration
We prioritise data migration from the very beginning of the implementation process, rather than treating it as an afterthought. A well-planned migration strategy ensures a seamless transition from legacy systems, minimising disruptions and preserving data integrity. Our approach includes comprehensive data assessment, cleansing, mapping, and validation to ensure accuracy and consistency across all asset records.
- Integration with Existing Systems: Hardcat seamlessly integrates with ERP, finance, and HR systems, maintaining connectivity and preventing workflow disruptions. This allows organisations to continue managing assets, scheduling maintenance, and tracking inventory without interruption.
By taking a proactive and structured approach, Hardcat minimises implementation risks, ensuring that essential asset management functions remain intact. Our expert support and best practices help organisations transition smoothly, keeping operations running efficiently throughout the process.
By addressing data migration early, we help organisations mitigate risks such as data loss, duplication, or inconsistencies. Whether migrating from spreadsheets, outdated databases, or another asset management system, our structured methodology ensures that critical information is transferred efficiently and securely. This proactive approach enables a smooth go-live experience, allowing users to leverage a fully functional, data-rich system from day one.
Mitigating Disruption and Ensuring Business Continuity
Software implementations can be complex, but Hardcat ensures a smooth transition with minimal disruption to business operations. Our structured approach to implementation, data migration, and system integration helps organisations maintain critical asset and maintenance functions throughout the process.
- Proactive Planning and Risk Mitigation: Hardcat begins every implementation with a detailed transition strategy, identifying potential risks and ensuring key processes remain operational. We work closely with stakeholders to develop a phased rollout plan, reducing downtime and allowing users to adapt gradually.
- Seamless Data Migration: A major challenge in software transitions is data integrity. Hardcat prioritises data migration from the outset, ensuring all asset, maintenance, and inventory records are accurately transferred and validated before the new system goes live. This prevents data loss, inconsistencies, or delays in accessing essential information.
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Parallel System Running and Training: To avoid sudden disruptions, Hardcat supports parallel system operation, where both the old and new systems run simultaneously during the transition. This allows teams to familiarise themselves with the new software while still relying on the existing system. Comprehensive user training further ensures a smooth adoption process, equipping staff with the necessary skills before full implementation.
- Reliable Backup and Recovery: Regular backups and failover solutions safeguard against unexpected failures. Hardcat’s robust backup and disaster recovery protocols ensure that organisations can quickly restore operations if issues arise during implementation.
Make certainty second nature
- Proactively handle regulatory demands with comprehensive company-wide controls and detailed reporting.
- Real-time reporting for complete visibility with searchable asset data that gives you over 200 standard reports at your fingertips and a custom report writing tool. Create simple dashboards and automated alerts to access what’s important to you and have complete visibility and control of your assets at home or in the field.
- Boost collaboration and access intelligence from anywhere with cloud-hosted SaaS options that are accessible on any web-enabled device. The smartphone and tablet application provides mobility and accessibility no matter where you are.
- Reliability and longevity—the cornerstone of equipment maintenance lies in accurately tracking and recording regular inspections, servicing, and timely repairs to ensure reliability and longevity.
- Build sustainability directly into your business by modifying operations and processes to consistently minimise emissions, waste, and environmental footprint.
- Maximise resources and provide a safe work environment; enterprise asset management is crucial for promoting safety, reliability, and efficiency.
Mobility solutions
The full knowledge, control and power of Hardcat solutions are at hand. Whether you are in the office or in the field Hardcat asset management solutions with HardcatWeb and Cloud-hosted SaaS options are accessible on any web-enabled device.
The smartphone and tablet applications provide you with mobility and accessibility no matter where you are. So you can keep an eye on them, even when they’re out of sight.
Future-proof your asset management strategy
Hardcat software solutions provide the foundation for enterprise-scale deployments, where specialist asset management capabilities seamlessly complement existing business applications such as Finance, ERP, and HR.
Meanwhile, the Hardcat V-Series software product is generally intended for discrete, stand-alone deployments, offering a single system with features that further enhance Hardcat’s core asset management pedigree, including finance capabilities like depreciation support.
Discover how Hardcat can revolutionise the way you manage your assets. Explore a solution tailored to your industry’s specific challenges.
